keep safe and keep it golden. tonight, breaking news. the election warning. the u.s. postal alert in more than 20 states. mail-in ballots may not be delivered in time. including to some key battleground states. this, as president trump campaigns against mail-in voting, threatening to withhold funding from the post office, even as he and the first lady request their mail-in ballots in florida. tonight, former president barack obama accusing trump of trying to kneecap the postal service. also developing, the grim new forecast showing as many as 200,000 u.s. lives may be lost by labor day. as americans remain divided over schools, news tonight from the cdc about survivors of the coronavirus and how long they may be protected after beating it.

the new body cam video in the george floyd case. this time showing an officer holding back bystanders as they plead with police to get off floyd's neck. one onlooker identifies herself as an off-duty firefighter, demanding they take floyd's pulse. the wildfires in the west as triple-digit heat fuels the flames. and the tropical storm in the atlantic that just formed. the bison road attack. a biker taking a photo when the massive animal charges, lifting her up and throwing her aside. close encounters. the pentagon setting up a task force to investigate possible ufo sightings. the videos they're looking at. and in sickness and in health. the wedding postponed by the coronavirus, and the hospital that stepped in to help. good evening. thanks for joining us on a very busy friday night. i'm tom llamas, in for david. there are several developing stories as we come on.

that grim new prediction from the cdc warning that as many as 200,000 people could die from the coronavirus by labor day. the pandemic now part of the presidential race and casting a shadow over the election itself. the u.s. post office has warned at least 23 states and the district of columbia that it can't guarantee that mail-in ballots will be delivered in time for them to be counted. this, after president trump threatened to withhold post office funding that would be used to expand mail-in voting during the pandemic. his rival joe biden pointing out the president himself votes by mail. and tonight, new scrutiny about the man the president has installed as the postmaster general. rachel scott leads us off tonight. >> reporter: tonight, the u.s. postal service warning at least 23 states that mail-in ballots might be not be delivered on time and risk not getting counted, calling deadlines in battleground states like pennsylvania and michigan incongruous and incompatible with their delivery standards. voters in those swing states can request absentee ballots just a

few days out from election day. president trump carried both by less than 1% in 2016. but the turnaround too tight, says the post of bracing for a surge in mail-in ballots during the pandemic. today new jersey announcing they'll send mail-in ballots to all of its 6.2 million residents. >> today, we are announcing that the november 3rd general election will be held overwhelmingly through vote by mail. every vote should be safe, every vote should be secure, and every vote should count. that shouldn't be controversial. >> reporter: the president launching a campaign against mail-in voting, pushing baseless claims about voter fraud. >> this election will be the most rigged election in history if that happens. >> reporter: threatening to withhold funding from the post office. >> now, if we don't make a deal, that means they don't get the money. that means they can't have universal mail-in voting. they just can't have it. >> reporter: today he doubled down on that threat, tying it to his coronavirus relief package. >> would you be willing to accept the $25 billion for the

postal service including the $3.5 billion -- >> sure, if they give us what we want. and it's not what i want, it's what the american people want. >> reporter: former president barack obama accusing the trump administration of being more concerned with suppressing the vote than suppressing a virus. >> what we've never seen before is a president say, i'm going to try to actively kneecap the postal service to encourage voting. and i will be explicit about the reason i'm doing it. >> reporter: today the president's rival joe biden tweeting, voting by mail is safe and secure. take it from the president, who just requested his mail-in ballot for the florida primary on tuesday. >> all right. rachel scott is in new jersey, traveling with the president tonight. and rachel, the newly appointed postmaster general, louis dejoy, a top gop donor, has made some changes recently, antoy we learn the post office's inspector general is looking into those moves? >> reporter: that's right, tom. he has been under fire for putting in place some cost-cutting measures that

critics say will only delay or slow down mail delivery ahead of what is expected to be a very busy mail-in voting season. tonight, the inspector general for the u.s. postal service confirms to abc news that they are looking into those policy changes. tom? >> rachel scott leading us off with that new reporting tonight. rachel, thank you. now to the staggering new number from the cdc warning that as many as 200,000 lives could be lost by labor day. tonight, the death toll already more than 168,000. that specter as children are going back to school. classrooms in arizona ready for them to arrive. you see it here. while some schools that already opened have students and staff in quarantine after some at their schools tested positive. and news about how long survivors of the virus may be protected. here's abc's matt gutman. >> reporter: tonight, the cdc with that staggering projection. by labor day, 200,000 americans could be lost to the virus. >> we're starting to see the inkling of the upticks in the percent of the tests that are

positive, which we know now from sad past experience that that's a predictor that you're going to have more surges. >> reporter: and in many places, testing still facing challenges. tressie seymour waiting ten hours in rhode island. >> now it's going on almost seven hours that i've been in my car waiting to get tested for a rapid test. >> reporter: california now tops 600,000 cases, the most in the nation. and this oppressive heat wave is forcing dozens of testing centers across the state to limit their hours or close entirely this weekend. in texas, deaths near 10,000. the bautista family losing both parents and two sisters within weeks of each other. >> every morning you wake up thinking you're going to get a phone call. it's not a virus you play with. >> reporter: the cdc now telling people who have fully recovered

from the virus, they don't need to quarantine or get tested for three months as long as they don't have symptoms. in georgia, 1,600 staff and students quarantined after positive tests in schools. protesters demanding more safeguards after images of crowded hallways surfaced. >> i know my friends and i will be wearing masks but i don't know about umpteen thousand other kids at my school. >> reporter: the white house task force urging the state do what the governor resisted doing, issue a mask mandate and shut down nightclubs, bars, and gyms in high risk areas. the governor today pointing to improving numbers in georgia. last month as hospitalizations and deaths were rising, the president told our affiliate wsb that georgia has done all right. >> georgia's been great, because you kept it down and re-opened. you're getting close to having 100% open and you've really kept the virus level down, which is an incredible tribute. >> reporter: dr. anthony fauci saying just yesterday, americans have a choice to make. >> you want to open the bars or you want to open the schools?

>> reporter: terra sinclair, a single mother in l.a., is desperate to get her first grader back into in-person schooling, but not like this. if you had your choice, would you send her to school right now? >> no. as much as i would love her to be in school, i think just seeing what happened in atlanta once they sent the kids to school, it's not worth it. >> reporter: tonight, this moment of triumph here in l.a. [ cheers and applause ] beatrice marquez finally leaving the hospital after battling the virus for months. >> blessed. blessed that i'm going home after 80 days. >> such a fire there, 80 days. matt joins us now from los angeles. matt, we've talked so much about vaccines, but tonight there's an update on the timeline for some of those experimental antibody drugs being tested now? >> reporter: what they're talking about is lab-engineered antibodies that would help an immune system fight off the virus. the drugmakers originally hoped they could start production by the end of the summer.

that timeline has now shifted towards the end of the year, and they blame that partly on hospitals who are inundated with covid cases, and also because nationwide testing has been so problematic. >> matt, thank you. next, newly released police body cam show showing the last minutes of george floyd's life as seen by former officer tou thao. we have seen the officer in videos shot by witnesses and tonight we see his view of those bystanders, including the growing agitation as floyd called for help and, finally, stopped breathing. alex perez with this new video, and a warning, it's difficult to watch. >> reporter: tonight, former minneapolis cop tou thao's defense team arguing thao's body cam video proves he shouldn't face charges in the killing of george floyd. >> do not touch me again. >> reporter: we've seen thao in images shot by bystanders, but this new video filed in court

shows thao's camera as he tries to corral the growing crowd onto the sidewalk. >> he's passed out. >> he's not even breathing right now, bro. do you think that's cool? >> that's what happens. >> you think that's cool and all right? >> reporter: the gathering public appearing shocked, concerned about the other officers restraining floyd until he lost consciousness and later died. >> you can't even look at me like a man because you a bum, bro. he's not even resisting arrest right now, bro. >> his nose is bleeding. >> he's about to pass out. >> reporter: some nine minutes in -- >> back off! >> reporter: thao confronting a bystander who identified herself as an off-duty firefighter and desperately wanted to help. >> he's not responsive right now, bro. >> check his pulse right now and tell me what it is. tell me what his pulse is right now. >> check his pulse! >> the fact that you guys aren't checking his pulse and doing compressions if he needs them, you guys are on another level. >> okay. >> reporter: thao's attorney also submitted the officers' interview with investigators. >> they were saying get off --

get off him, get off his neck. you know, look at him. >> suggesting what? >> check on -- >> to you? check on him? did you do that? >> that was not my job. >> okay. >> tom, a tentative trial date is set for march of next year, but attorneys are due back in court next month to tackle a motion by the prosecutor to try all four former officers at the same time in one trial. tom? >> alex perez for us tonight, thank you. now to the race for 2020. 81 days until the election, and the presidential race is entering a new phase. today joe biden and kamala harris appearing together in public signing documents to officially appear on ballots. the democratic convention starts on monday, but president trump has already gone on the attack, lasering in on harris. here's kyra phillips. >> reporter: tonight, socially distanced and signing the documents, joe biden and kamala harris are officially on the ballot as the democratic ticket. >> that's it. >> reporter: since the day she

was picked, president trump has relentlessly hammered harris with personal attacks. >> she was very, very nasty. she was extraordinarily nasty to kavanaugh. she was the meanest, the most horrible, most disrespectful. >> reporter: just 24 hours ago, saying this about the first black woman on a major party presidential ticket. >> now you have sort of a madwoman, i call her, because she was so angry and such hatred with justice kavanaugh. >> reporter: today i asked the president directly -- do you have an issue with a strong woman of color being in this presidential race? >> none whatsoever. >> reporter: you don't see her as a threat? >> as you know, none whatsoever. nope. not at all. >> reporter: harris saying biden deserves credit for picking a black woman. >> joe biden had the audacity to choose a black woman to be his running mate. how incredible is that? rorter:

focusing on pulling off an entirely virtual convention. monday, speeches from bernie sanders and michelle obama. top democrats on display all week, including the clintons and congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez, though her speech, only one minute long. wednesday, harris will address the nation. so will former president barack obama. and thursday, biden makes his case to the american people. tom, on his way to his new jersey golf club for the weekend, the president did visit his brother at the cornell medical center late this afternoon. the details of robert trump's condition not immediately clear, but sources telling abc he is very ill. when asked about his brother at the briefing today, the president telling us he's having a hard time. tom? >> kyra, thank you. a programming note, abc news will provide gavel to gavel coverage of the democratic convention beginning at 7:00 p.m. eastern on abc news

live and at 10:00 p.m. eastern right here on abc, monday through thursday. we hope you'll join us. also tonight, a former fbi lawyer is expected to plead guilty of making false statements after admitting he altered an email from the cia in an effort to renew a wiretap of former trump adviser carter page. kevin kleinsmith resigned last year after an internal investigation revealed his action. this is the first criminal charge brought by u.s. attorney john durham, tapped by the attorney general to probe the origins of the russia investigation. in the west tonight, dozens of wildfires are burning with triple-digit temperatures heading into the weekend. the fire we told you about last night in california burned right up to homes, forcing evacuations. the evacuation order lifted tonight. and new video from the lake fire. firefighters saving an american flag from a structure that had already burned. now in the east, a tropical storm has just formed off the coast of new england. abc's senior meteorologist rob marciano is standing by.

rob, we reported this last night, that heat in the west, it's a growing problem mow. >> reporter: it is, with so many fires in the west, and now that heat is expanding rapidly. we've got heat watches posted for much othpacific northwest and warnings up from dallas all the way to southern california, including l.a., where they're going to cook through at least monday. near or at 100 degrees saturday and sunday for portland. that's measured in the shade, so that's dangerous heat. minneapolis down to the texas panhandle. it won't stop raining in kentucky, ohio, and parts of the mid-atlantic. and latest tropical storm, kyle, that will luckily for now stay out to sea. tom? >> good news. rob, thank you. wh cama r yio ge t photo whenhe massive animal charges straight at her ose encounter.ain thunexplained. stay with us. tagon has done tonight to rye to explain the unexplained. stay with us. get out of my face! hpv can cause certain cancers when your child grows up.

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finally tonight, "america strong." a toast to the newlyweds and the hospital that made it happen. san antonio residents carlos muniz and grace leimann were set to mark the happiest day of their lives last month. planning to get married on july 13th. but one say after filing for their marriage certificate at the courthouse, carlos developed covid-19 symptoms. >> that was the most difficult part for me was letting him go into the e.r. and not knowing when i would see him again. >> reporter: days later, he was rushed to the hospital, then the icu, where he was placed on life

support. >> he was very, very close to not making it. >> reporter: grace would visit carlos daily and got to know his nurse, matt holdridge. >> she explained to me the story about how they had gone to the courthouse and gotten their marriage certificate and then the next day he became symptomatic with covid-19. >> reporter: matt quickly alerted the medical staff. they had a plan. the wedding would go on. >> they combed my hair and gave me a shave and everything. i felt so blessed. >> reporter: doctors and nurses acting as carlos' wedding party, carefully wheeling him out. grace in her wedding dress, walking down the aisle with her daughter, faith. >> to have and to hold. >> to have and to hold. >> from this day forward. >> from this day forward. >> reporter: carlos and grace, exchanging vows bedside. >> i, grace yvette leimann, take

you, carlos alejhandro muniz, to be my wedded husband. >> reporter: love in the age of covid. and then the rings. >> i pronounce you man and wife. what therefore god has joined let no man put asunder. you may kiss the bride. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: tonight, carlos out of the icu, telling us the moment he saw grace walk down the aisle. >> perfection. everything that i always wanted. >> it was a great moment for me that i will treasure that memory forever. >> a socially distanced kiss. we thank them for sharing that. thank you for watching. i'm tom llamas. stay safe. good night. taking a live look outside,

we have team coverage of this weekend's big heatwave. meteorologist sandhya patel is pinpointing which cities could see record temperatures. i'm cornell bernard in the russian river. how folks in the north bay are dealing with this major heatwave and covid-19. and the race for a vaccine. we talk to experts about who could be the first in line to get a covid-19 immunization. >> now from abc7, live breaking news. >> good evening. thank you for joining us tonight. breaking news in the south bay where crews are battling a grass fire along highway 17. this is in los gatos. this is sky 7 video from just moments ago. the fire son highway 17 southbound, south of the cats restaurant. the santa clara fire crews say the flames spread to a nearby hillside. so far a quarter acre has been burned, but firefighters just told us they stopped forward progress and no structures are

threatened. traffic is backing up so drivers are urged to avoid the area. we will bring you updates on this story on our abc7 news app on this newscast if anything happen as well. thank you for joining us. i'm ama daetz. >> and i'm dan ashley. let's get right to sandhya patel with more on the heat. >> dan and ama, we have a dozen new records to tell you about. san francisco 95 degrees, surpassing its old record of 86 set back in 1995. oakland 100. 103, san jose. 99 at sfo. napa 104. richmond, 96, all new records for the day. many of those were set back in 2019, just last year. additional records, santa rosa 106 degrees, surpassing the previous record of 101. kentfield, 102. half moon bay 82 degrees. 107 in gilroy. santa cruz 105 degrees. this is excessive heat. temperatures right now still in the triple-digits. 110 in fairfield. 105 in livermore. so these interest hot spots.

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